In the studio set up in a residential setting, Martin sat in front of the piano, ten fingers falling on the black and white keys as if dancing, and the cheerful music jingled and clanged.

Saoirse Ronan, dressed in a dress, stepped on the rhythm and twirled and danced.

The crew is testing for filming.

Saoirse turned to the piano and as soon as she said a line, director Damien Chazelle shouted a stop.

"It's not like that, Saoirse, you're acting too sweet." The director has another interpretation of the script, which is not exactly the same as that of the screenwriter Mia: "Remember the point that we specifically emphasized when we read the script, the heroine is not intoxicated with love with the male protagonist, but a modern woman with dreams and independent ideas. ”

Saoirse propped her hands on the piano and said, "I see." ”

Damien looked at Martin again, although Martin was the owner of the project and also served as a producer, but the shooting scene belonged to the director.

He said directly: "The tunes and rhythms played are more retro, and people have to listen to a feeling of a golden age." ”

Martin nodded, and tried to play a passage.

Still dissatisfied, Damien beckoned to Sebastian: "You can demonstrate it again." ”

Martin stepped out of the way.

Sebastian sat down at the piano, slightly brewing his emotions, and pressed the black and white keys.

It's still the same jazz song from the '60s, but it doesn't sound like it at all.

Switching back to Martin, Martin played it again with his feelings.

Damien shook his head slightly, came to the piano and whispered to Martin: "The live playing effect is not very good, why not change the shooting method?" ”

Music is more talent than acting, and Martin knows very well that he can be proficient in fingering after more than half a year of practice, but the music he plays is just like that.

"Yes." Martin said directly: "Take a picture of me playing, and change the song to Seba's playing." ”

He specifically asked: "Did the crew talk to Seba?" ”

Of course, Sebastian had to pay for such a shoot.

The crew is willing to pay, and it is naturally easy to do things, and the assistant director exchanged a few words with Sebastian.

Because the two sides have already negotiated, the shooting mode has been reversed.

Martin pays more attention to the use of fingering and the expression of personal behavior in his performances, and does not think too much about the music played.

Saoirse still dances to the accompaniment.

But after filming four or five times in a row, it was stopped because she shouted.

Damien could only call Saoirse aside and said alone: "I don't know what you have to do with Martin, and I don't care about this, in the performance just now, the eyes and facial expressions you looked at Martin were all wrong!" ”

"You are like a pure admirer, not an independent-minded woman," he stressed. ”

Saoirse understands that she has brought the reality into the character and says, "I'll adjust as soon as possible." ”

Damien sat down behind the director's monitor, suddenly raised his hand and patted his face hard, muttering, "You can do it!" You can do it! You can definitely ......."

This is the second feature film he directed, and the first one has no such pressure.

Filming restarted, and the shot was repeated three more times, and Damien was finally satisfied with Saoirse Ronan's performance and shouted pass.

Martin stood up from the piano and moved his wrist.

Saoirse came over, her mood was somewhat depressed, and she whispered, "Teacher......"

Martin encouraged: "It's a good adjustment, keep it up. ”

Saoirse cheered up and clenched her fists: "I will!" ”

This is a girl with very good acting talent, I don't know how much better than Blake Lively, after some adjustments, I gradually found the feeling of a heroine.

After the filming of the piano playing scene in the morning, the crew then moved to another restaurant interior.

is still filming the scenes of the hero and heroine.

This is a scene of the hero and heroine in a jazz bar.

Before the start of filming, Damien specifically found Saoirse Ronan and talked to her about the play, emphasizing the key core part of the role: "This is one of the three key scenes where the heroine and the male protagonist meet, in these scenes, the heroine is active, even if she already has a boyfriend, she still can't help but tease the male lead!" ”

Saoirse understood: "My character sends enough signals for the male protagonist to think about me." ”

Damien pointed at her, "You understand correctly. ”

Saoirse returned to the set and sat next to Martin.

Martin said: "Don't be pressured, act according to the director's requirements and your understanding. ”

"Hmm!" Saoirse nodded vigorously and asked, "I understand, this heroine is a green tea like Emma Watson." ”

Hearing Emma Watson, Martin couldn't help but ask curiously, "How is your sworn enemy doing?" ”

Saoirse smiled happily: "She sees me walking around now, but I heard people in the British entertainment industry say that Rowling seems to have some opinions about her." ”

Martin calculates the time, and estimates that Rowling and Emma Watson's version is still about the same, and in a few years, Rowling's version is seriously behind and will be ruthlessly crushed.

The crew began to clear the scene, and the two stopped talking, brewing the emotions of the characters.

As the scene notes are played in front of the camera, the shooting begins.

Mia wrote a script that was partly taken from her own experience, and partly from her own experience on the set, and some of the plots were very Hollywood.

For example, in the portrayal of the heroine, even if she is a girl who pursues her dreams from beginning to end, in the writing of multiple scenes, the heroine always exudes the of a Hollywood actress.

This is actually very easy to understand, the screenwriter herself is a Hollywood actress, and she is used to seeing people and things around her, and she is used to it.

Therefore, it seems that the love that is small and fresh, if you think about it carefully, you will feel that it is not quite right.

Martin's male protagonist is a down-and-out literary young man who dreams of saving classical jazz from its dying.

Two people in despair can easily collide with sparks of passion.

It's like a movie city in Martin's previous life, where the extras waiting for their opportunity will temporarily partner up once they see the right eye.

As for later? Actually, it's pretty much the same on both sides.

All afternoon, the jazz bar scene was filmed, and several black people played at a very high level, and Mene came to ask for some musical advice in between the shooting.

Mene will play the lead singer of a band.

At the end of the afternoon, Martin returned to the rest place to pack his things, Saoirse followed, saw someone around, and said magnificently: "Soon to shoot the dance scene, let's rehearse a little longer?" ”

Martin understood what this meant, and said, "Okay, you go and remove your makeup first, I'll wait for you." ”

"You're waiting for me at the cold drink shop." Saoirse happily ran out of the studio.

Martin returned to the makeup trailer to remove his makeup and change back into his clothes, talked to Mene who came over, got out of the car and went to the cold drink shop, and before he reached the door, he saw Mia and Sebastian arguing under the sun umbrella outside the cold drink shop.

The two faced each other coldly, a little far apart, and Martin couldn't hear what they were talking about.

But Sebastian's face was a little ugly, and he retorted to Mia.

As a result, Mia pointed to his chest and raised her voice to argue twice, shook her bag and turned around and left.

She took a few steps forward, looked up just in time to see Martin, and forced a smile: "Hello, Martin......"

Martin waved his hand, "Go get busy with you." ”

He glanced at Sebastian again, and Sebastian threw his hands helplessly at Martin.

Martin didn't care about this, he didn't ask, as long as the two of them didn't affect the normal work of the crew.

Sebastian soon left as well.

Martin sat under the umbrella and waited for less than five minutes before Saoirse Ronan hurried over.

She went and ordered two cold drinks, brought them over and placed them on the small round table, and chatted with Martin while eating.

It was still early, and after another day of filming, the two of them just rested for a while.

Saoirse took a bite of ice cream and asked, "The heroine I play is very much like Emma Watson, a hidden blue pool." ”

She thought for a moment and asked, "You are familiar with Mia, why did she write the heroine like this?" ”

Martin put down the cold drink glass and said: "Mia may have brought these unconsciously, or think that these are normal situations, and in the face of the dream of stardom that she is looking for, these can be given up." ”

"I can understand the ending." Saoirse was thinking of a scene in the middle: "Before the heroine and the male protagonist have not yet confirmed their relationship, they are too." ”

Martin motioned for her to continue.

Saoirse said: "The heroine has a rich and handsome boyfriend, and her boyfriend took her to a high-end restaurant to eat with her brother, according to the description of the script, this man is a little rigid and conservative, so the heroine thinks he is boring, and abandons her boyfriend on the spot to find the male protagonist." ”

She coughed lightly: "Who is the hero?" Literary and artistic youth engaged in art. ”

Martin knew what Saoirse was trying to say: "I know how to play with art, and I'm very romantic." ”

"The heroine doesn't look like a lot of Bichi? Her boyfriend treats her well, and she takes it for granted. Saoirse played the heroine, so the research was a bit deep: "But she just felt that her boyfriend was boring, didn't understand romance, had no sense of ceremony, and there was no common language between the two, and then a literary young man who could play and like to play appeared, and she immediately felt that if she didn't get together with the young man, she was sorry for the beautiful youth." ”

Martin couldn't help but laugh: "Your opinion is almost the same as that of director Damien." He revealed, "Didn't you notice? Damien is consciously shaping the heroine in this direction. ”

Saoirse didn't understand, "Why? Youth, dreams, love...... None of this is right. ”

"I don't know what the screenwriter really thinks, I only know what the director thinks." Martin said simply: "The female characters in the movie now pay attention to my life, and I am in charge, and all this that the heroine does is this kind of embodiment." ”

Saoirse thought for a while and nodded: "It seems that yes, the heroine took the initiative to hook up with the hero, took the initiative to abandon her current boyfriend and get involved with the hero, and used the phone call with her mother to push the heroine to make money so that she could write the script with peace of mind......

In fact, Martin knows very well that Damien seems to give the heroine control over her life, but he quietly buried a few bottles of green tea for her.

(End of chapter)